Have you ever tried to draw special and complex shapes beyond the basic offerings of LibreOffice? A custom shape of the Fibonacci spiral defined by its equation and properties with handles to reshape size? Thanks to Regina Henschel, now you have a tutorial for drawing custom shapes of your own and use them in LibreOffice.…
Tips & Tricks Archive
25 Jan 2022
Using a Matrix Bridge with LibreOffice IRC Channels
Hossein Nourikhah writes:
Ever wondered about using modern chat tools to discuss LibreOffice? Here we will discuss using a Matrix bridge to connect to the LibreOffice IRC rooms, to participate more efficiently in LibreOffice-related discussions.
Traditionally, IRC has been the preferred way of communication for the FOSS communities including the LibreOffice community. There are multiple IRC
27 Aug 2021
Parabolas as custom shapes in LibreOffice
Regina Henschel writes…
Teachers of mathematics often need a parabola in their instructions or exercises. Creating a parabola by using a chart is cumbersome. Therefore I have generated some parabolas as custom shape for anyone to use. You can get them in this LibreOffice Writer document.
A simple parabola
A parabola
05 May 2021
3D Objects: Making a Globe with LibreOffice
Regina Henschel shows you how to do some nifty 3D tricks in LibreOffice…
First, you need a world map in “Miller projection”. You find a suitable one on Wikipedia – download the full-size version. Here’s a thumbnail of it (CC-BY-SA, Daniel R. Strebe, August 2011):
Next, start LibreOffice Draw, and create
08 Dec 2020
OpenOffice crashing on macOS Big Sur? Try LibreOffice
Some Apache OpenOffice users are reporting that version 4.1.8 is crashing on Apple macOS 11.0 (aka “Big Sur” or 10.16) when opening OOXML documents – like .docx and .xlsx. The error message is:
OpenOffice quit unexpectedly
Here’s a video showing how it crashes (WebM version here):
20 Nov 2020
What to do with a document “created by a newer version of OpenOffice”
Are you using Apache OpenOffice? Have you recently tried to open a .odt, .ods or .odp file and received this error message? “This document was created by a newer version of OpenOffice. It may contain features not supported by your current version.”
In this case, the document probably wasn’t created in OpenOffice,